On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 04:08:30AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > Umpf... it can quickly happen if the maintainer is not available for a > week and someone else wants a "quick" update. Mozilla.org, Gnome.org, > X.org etc. are good examples - maintainer on vacation for some weeks and > others start messing his code up (there is a german sentence describing > this kind of situation: "Ist die Katze aus dem Haus tanzen die M?use auf > dem Tisch" ... rougthly translated: "The cat is away from home and the > mice start dancing on the table").
I think we can handle the cat going on vacation for a few weeks. But if the cat leaves for better pastures (not enough mice? :), then the cat has little right to complain about the dancing mice. > Offtopic: Who maintains this code in Solaris ? I'd ask Casper about this, I think, though it's pretty much unmaintained -- almost everything in cmd/tcpd hasn't been touched since integration in 2001. > > The grub patches are baked into the sources already; I can't comment on why > > they continue to exist as separate entities. Perhaps Jan can. > > If the GRUB people where allowed to add such files as part of their work > why can't we do the same ? If I'd been more careful about the newboot review, I probably would have asked for these files not to have been integrated. > > Indeed, the ON build log shows no instances of the patch utility being run > > to apply diffs to the source. > > Erm... that was NOT the idea. I did not intend to run "gpatch" or > "patch" at build time. Ah. That's a great relief, though I still feel like these files (or equivalents) belong in a development workspace, and not in ON. Danek
